Total Life Forever is the title track from Foals second album: Total Life Forever. It has not been released as single.
Leading up to the release of their second album the band released some segments of track via their myspace website. Later they played their first tracks from their new album at T in the Park 2009 including Total life forever and one other track. The album reached number 8 in the UK album chart.
Foals are greatly considered to be of the Math Rock genre. This genre shares its place of origin in the late 80’s underground music scene of the American Midwest and its surroundings with post-rock. Some early bands characteristics of both math rock and post-rock, using instruments for textures rather than melodies and riffs, featuring atypical rhythms and some dissonance. The genres soon diverged: math rock concentrated on angular melodies, atypical time signatures, start-stop rhythms, and dissonance, while staying closer to rock music in sound and instrumentation.
However others refer to Foals as being from the Indie genre, a controversial genre in itself. The meaning of the term: "indie rock" is contested by many musicians, fans and commentators. Some use the term "indie" to describe any music produced by artists working within the network of independent record labels and underground music venues that emerged in the US and elsewhere in 1980's and 1990's. Others understand indie rock as a distinct genre of rock with a specific artistic aesthetic, and care less about the context in which it is made. Many embrace both meanings of the word, believing that the aesthetics of the genre and its means of production are deeply intertwined.
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